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Atlanta filmmaker Milford Thomas’ CLAIRE is a 53-minute black and white silent film shot on an antique hand-crank 35mm Mitchell Standard. The film is always accompanied in theatre by the live "Orchestra de Lune," an 11-piece chamber ensemble performing an original score by Atlanta composer Anne Richardson.
..CLAIRE’s story is loosely based on Kaguyahime, a Japanese fairytale about an elderly childless couple that finds a child from the moon in a stalk of bamboo and raises her as their own. Thomas’ version tells the story of an elderly male couple on a farm in the rural 1920s South who find the moon princess in an ear of corn. For more info check out www.clairefilm.com.
WATCH FILM CLIPS BELOW: You can watch below Anne Richardson rehearsing with the "Orchestra de Lune" for the DVD recording:
CLAIRE was shot in Atlanta and other locations throughout Georgia, Tennessee, and North and South Carolina. Cast members include Toniet Gallego as Claire, Jim Ferguson, Mish P. DeLight, and Allen Jeffrey Rein.